Crop tool soooo unintuitive

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2023-04-23 15:30:40

I must be missing something incredibly obvious! I simply want to crop an image I've dropped into Pixelmator Pro but the crop tool seems to crop the canvas rather than the image! Please can someone explain this very basic operation? So frustrating!
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2023-04-24 19:48:15

Yes, if the image is the same size as the canvas the crop tool will crop everything. But if want to crop an image on a layer you can use the selection tool to select the areas to delete - as needed. If you want non-destructive edits of the layer you can use a mask to "hide" the parts as desired. I find the crop tool very intuitive, it does one thing and one thing well - I really appreciate that it can expand the canvas.